Posted inGaming, Spotlight

Illegal ROM site owner ordered to pay Nintendo $2.1 million in damages

The owner of a closed down ROM distribution website was ordered to pay Nintendo $2.1 million dollars in damages. Back in September 2019, a lawsuit has been filed by Nintendo against Matthew Storman over his site RomUniverse.com, which provided illegal “Nintendo Switch Scene Roms” and some other copyrighted gaming files. According to Nintendo, RomUniverse was one […]

Posted inSmartphones, Spotlight

UC Browser caught snooping on ‘private’ web activity of Android and iPhone users

A security researcher has found that UC Browser sends records of visitors’ activity to its servers, even when they are using incognito mode.  Alibaba subsidiary UCWeb developed the UC Browser, which is reportedly popular across numerous parts of the world. In fact, it has over 500 million downloads on the Google Play Store alone. Based […]

Posted inGovernment, Internet

Ex-DICT official adamant agency’s current VSAT project is overpriced

When a former undersecretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) recently questioned the reportedly exorbitant cost of the agency’s current Free Internet Wi-Fi Project, incumbent officials defended the project and claimed the VSAT tech being used is actually cheaper and provides faster Internet. But the former undersecretary remains unconvinced. In his Facebook […]